Adding Meta Tags to your Web Pages

Front Page allows you to add in Meta tags into your web pages automatically.  Meta tags are hidden codes that are used by search engines and portal sites to index your web pages.  Spiders and robots go out to web pages and they look for Meta tags in order to properly index web sites and web pages.

The three key Meta tags that are used in indexing sites are the following:

1) Author
2) Description
3) Keywords

This tutorial focuses on adding these Meta tags to your web pages.  You can add in other meta tags, including the following:

<META name="resource-type" content="document">

• The only resource type that is currently in use is "document" This is the only tag that you need to put in for indexing purposes, but use of the others is a good idea.

<META name="distribution" content="global">

• Content should contain either global, local or iu (for Internal Use).  My advice is to stick to "global".

<META name="copyright" content="copyright statement">

• Pretty obvious what this one's for.

To find out more about Meta tags, click here.

Steps to Setting Up Meta Tags on your Web Pages:

1) Open your Front Page Editor.
2) Open your web page. Click on the File Option located in the Task Bar.
3) In the File Option, select and click on Page Properties.

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4) Click on the Custom tab.

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5) Click on the Add button.  In the User Meta Variable window, type in the following information:

 

Name: Author
Value: Your Name

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You will notice that I typed in Author for the Name and John Smith for the Value.

6) Repeat Step 3 -5.  Add the following Names and Values:

 

Name: Description
Value: One sentence that describes your web page. (Recommended Maximum Characters: 30)

Example: This web page discusses important factors of web design.

Name: Keywords
Value: Type in keywords separated by commas and spaces

 

Example: computers, information, class, notes, tech support

7) Save the file to your local computer (hard drive).

8) Publish the new file via the "Publish" or "Import" option to the CCC Web Server.

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